Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie : the Making of Chinese American Rhetoric.

LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mao, LuMing
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, 2006.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780874215380
0874215382
1283283514
9781283283519
9786613283511
6613283517
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: thinking through paradoxes
  • 1. Opening topics: reading Chinese fortune cookie
  • 2. Face to face: Chinese and European American
  • 3. Indirection versus directness: a relation of complementarity
  • 4. Terms of contact reconfigured: ("shu" or "reciprocity") encountering individualism
  • 5. From classroom to community: Chinese American rhetoric on the ground
  • 6. Closing comment: Chinese fortune cookie as a topic again.